evidence Man who tried to break into house left severed finger behind, leading police to his arrest Carla Sinclair

dna Gentleman who left DNA on half-eaten sausage at crime scene caught 9 years later Carla Sinclair

crime Paul Manafort's inability to save Word files as PDFs provided the evidence necessary to indict him for fraud Cory Doctorow

Science Did climate change cause Hurricane Sandy? The answer depends on why you're asking Maggie Koerth

mad mad MAGA Dumbfounded GOP lawmaker can't make sense of his own timeline against made-up Biden allegations (video) Carla Sinclair

guns Jack-in-the-Box worker shoots at customer through drive-through window after curly fry argument (video) David Pescovitz

jellyfish New study: tiny brainless jellyfish somehow capable of forming of memories Thom Dunn

Winter White House Father and son real estate grifters demonstrate how they lost their NY fraud case in real-time Jason Weisberger

discrimination Former housekeeper sues Bezos — claims she was forced to eat in the laundry room and work 14 hour shifts Mark Frauenfelder

deaths Judge dismisses the manslaughter charges against prison warden and five staffers who let inmate starve to death in solitary confinement Rob Beschizza

tabloids JFK's second gunman, and alien life on Earth, exposed in last week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Science Incredible video of orangutan building a hammock Ruben Bolling

politics NYT Opinion columnist David Brooks issues a mea culpa after spending $50 on a glass of whiskey while decrying the "terrible economy" Jennifer Sandlin

Science Evidence of hominins building wooden structures half a million years ago Ruben Bolling